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Frank Steinmetzger writes: |
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> Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong: |
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> > Instead of guessing using this rather imprecise metric, why not just |
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> > look up the serial number of your drive and see what the physical |
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> > sector size is? |
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> Well, at differences of 50%, precision is of no relevance anymore. |
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> Also, I already did look it up and it didn’t turn up any conclusive |
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> results. Just search hits from fdisk output of people who are |
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> partitioning the drive. So the only thing I can think of yet is to |
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> call Samsung’s expensive hotline. Hm... oh well, perhaps I could write |
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> an e-mail, because I’m too niggard and phonophobe to make a call. ^^ |
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No need for either, just look up the drive on Samsung's homepage [*]. It's |
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512 bytes/sector, you should be fine. |
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Wonko |
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[*]http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?group=72&type=94&subtype=99&model_cd=446 |
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